I CAN'T BELIEVE We Missed This...

[@MikeZillaGuitarGuy88]

Maul's wisdom and foresight has always been grossly underrated

[@kahel5820]

He is in general underrated. I think if not for his beef thowards Obi he would stir the galaxy a bit more (like from the shadows)

[@j02savage9]

@@kahel5820he did lol his had is in everything 😂😂😂. I always say that sudious biggest mistake was replacing him.

[@peterbuckmaster581]

I love how so many different people have combined to make Maul one of the most compelling SW characters ever. Ray Park, Lucas, Filoni, Sam Whitwer, the animation teams, and everyone involved in the characters that were part of Maul's journey.

[@cl8733]

@@j02savage9 What choice did Sidious have? He was pretty dead, cut in half and everything. He was brought back to life by Filoni because he wanted to.

[@j02savage9]

@@cl8733 it’s palps bro he always has a choice lol,

[@Comrade_Jason]

I was super impressed that they got the Ahsoka silhouette spot on. The animated characters have very defined shapes that don't really correspond with their live-action counterparts (think Dooku, for example). But this younger Ahsoka silhouette is 100% the same in animation and live-action. That's pretty impressive.

[@shamsudeenidris3038]

Yesss! Thank you!! I thought I was alone on this. Ahsoka in Rebels just didn't look like Ahsoka to me. I get that she's older and all,but the character design wasn't it,with the long face and stretched out body.

[@FlawlessWhale]

my wife whole heartedly disagrees. lol as well as Hera, she is quite the critic

[@Aacula]

Dude the INSTANT I saw her silhouette... I had to check that my disney + didn't turn clone wars on

[@babytoshiro7014]

@@Aacula I never seen Rebels or Clone Wars but I do know of the cartoon and this young actress and all her poses especially her scene doing "Rebels" looks so much like the animation.

[@Auvas_Damask]

​@@babytoshiro7014You know what you have to catch up on. DEW IT!

[@Batbird74]

watching the animated show, you forget that Ahsoka is a teenager; seeing her in live action was really powerful and really made me see how impressive she really was...17years old and she's holding her own against Maul (and all the other things she's done). Incredible.

[@Valorantgamingclipsandupdates]

17. it was at the end of the clone wars and she faced maul right at the end. But yes still young.

[@yoshi3294]

@@Valorantgamingclipsandupdatesnot a 1v1

[@redacted927]

​@@yoshi3294yes it was. The duel was a 1 on 1

[@deannovak8077]

​@yoshi3294 what are you talking about it was 1v1

[@yoshi3294]

@@deannovak8077 yeah right with hella clones helping

[@ronsworld250]

IMO, I think that very last arc in the last season of TCW is some of the best SW ever written and filmed. The fight with Maul, the Rex/Ashoka relationship, the battle on Mandalore, how it coincided with ROS, order 66 playing out, the downed ship, the burial of all the clone troopers, Kiner’s excellent music, and the last shot of Vader. For animation, it is brilliant. The animation is on another level but the shots( the glass breaking just before Ashoka and Maul fight and that shot of Ashoka standing above Mandalore on the beam looking through that cracked glass) rival some of the best shots of a live action movie. Like the narrator states, I, too often wondered how things would have played out if Ashoka had accepted Maul’s offer.

[@NETBU]

imagine Ahsoka turns up on Coruscant with maul to confront Anakin that would anger Anakin leaving him to also feel betrayed not only by Kenobi but his only much trusted Padawan and driving his anger more to the dark side

[@peterbuckmaster581]

Agreed. Some of the animation shots are very cinematic. Re-watching Rebels now and some of the scenes hit hard. And Andor has introduced top-notch dialogue to the SW galaxy! It's a good time to be alive.

[@beakmaster69]

@@NETBU Imagine the man that killed his only father figure (Qui Gon) showing up to tell him his replacement father figure (Sidious) needs to be killed. I don't see it going any better than the events that actually happened. Anakin would stop Maul just like he did with Windu. I could see an alternate timeline where Anakin fights Ahsoka on Mustafar instead of Obi Wan. She may even win, and he would still turn to Vader. Almost as if the events of the original trilogy were inevitable.

[@sleazysteve944]

I recently watched all of the CW for the first time and it really brought me back into Star Wars. That series is truly a masterpiece imo

[@ryanjordan8928]

Imagine if they showed that duel between her an maul omgggg

[@_winston_smith_]

Still the best lightsaber duel by a country mile! I was amazed when I found out years later that they used motion capture.

[@heinrich4208]

One aspect of this episode I've seen people touch on but not fully explore is how the first flashback recontextualize the Jedi Order and the inevitability of Vader. Having the scenes played out by real actors rather than animation really showed how young Ahsoka was and that by modern standards she should never have been a part of the war, or let alone be a commander. It stands to reason then that a faction willing to use such methods would intentionally or inadvertently create a monster such as Vader. When Anakin walks away and we for a moment see him turn into Vader it confirms this idea to me, and recontextualizes him as a monster of the Jedi's own making. I think Ahsoka at least unconsciously recognize tyhis, as these scenes are happening within her mind. The second scene has some things few have mentioned as well. It plays into her idea of her legacy being death and destruction, but in my opinion she looked more like a sith than a jedi in the second flashback, when she ruthlessly and skillfully killed the opposing mandalorians, clad in dark tones, and how she surveyed the battlefield and destruction afterwards.

[@theunderdog9353]

Ichoose to believe it wasn't just a hallucination

[@Peetr0s]

The thing that to me looked crystal clear from the start is that the Jedi are the true bad guys in Star Wars. They are basically a deluded cult who think they are morally superior to everyone. Then they have this rules and detachments that keeps them from being actually good people. They help people when it suits them and when it doesn't oh well if people die they will become one with the force, as if it that is some sort of consolation prize. They actively remove babies from their families, indoctrinate them so much that they don't even care about their family, they make them fight while still being children/teenagers, they are taught not to love and not have emotions. How can they understand what it truly means to have compassion? They can't. Also, they treated Anakin very badly from the start (specially Mace Windu, which I hate with a passion) and set him up to failure. Not only were they hostile and dismissive of him and his feelings, but later in life wanted him to spy on Palpatine, who was his friend, something that goes against their own teachings. They are a bunch of hypocrites responsible by their demise due to their dogmatic and arrogant views.

[@stephenjohnston7630]

The monster that was Vader was well on his way before the Jedi were ever military commanders - Anakin first put the Youngling Massacre Moves (Theoretical) into practice on Tatooine while he was supposed to be acting as a Senators's bodyguard, a fairly routine job for a guardian of peace and justice.

[@theunderdog9353]

@@stephenjohnston7630 Convenient how you left out the part where it's literally a race of savages that tortured and killed his mother and that he was only there on his own because the people that could have helped him told him to just forget about his mother instead. You know, the one person he had that cared for him during his childhood, growing up as a slave

[@stephenjohnston7630]

@@theunderdog9353 The characterisation of a race as 'savages' makes *murdering children* in revenge with your superior powers okay, does it? That's certainly never come up as an issue in the real world, and certainly not in the year this film was being made. The contention I'm responding to is that the military role that teenagers were forced into in the Clone Wars created Vader - i've no doubt at all it was Anakin's overall teatment by a cold and isolated Order, as much as Palpatine's whispers, that did that . My point is, the turn onto a dark path precedes the trauma of the Clone Wars.

[@shathriel]

I think Anakin also wanted to push her to see if she would let her anger win there in the world between worlds, to see if she could withstand the temptation of the dark side and she passed, she threw the blade away.

[@davidvondoom2853]

I think there are different layers to Anakin's lesson, that are hard to spot, at first glance. During the flashback, Ahsoka laments over the deaths of the clone troopers. She doesn't want to lead people into battle because she fears she might lead them to their deaths. A fear that still holds true in the present. Anakin tells her that she shouldn't fear loosing people... a fear he's intimately familiar with. As we all know, Anakin's fear of loosing Padme and not being powerful enough made him susceptible to the manipulations of Sidious. Anakin doesn't want Ahsoka having those same fears. He's warning her off the path he took.

[@billmcdonough3950]

Minor quibble: It's not that she shouldn't have those fears... but that of course she'll have them. Every leader who isn't a sociopath has them. But she shouldn't give in to them, and shouldn't let them control her or prevent her from doing the things she knows need to be done.

[@Theckonestroh]

I don't feel the whole message is about Ahsoka. This leads into Sabine and failing to train her. Ahsoka can't train anyone if she is always living in her past.

[@greyman003]

It is going to be very hard to meet the expectations set following episode five.

[@schmoneydude7194]

i know it won't happen but ezra lol. and honestly we might get ezra at the very very end of this show. for like a minute or two and then boom end. but who knows. we gotta wait and see.

[@thetacticalcobra]

@@schmoneydude7194boom

[@JustaNilbody]

My man Maul is constantly undermined and taken for a fool.

[@essbe7158]

If only Filoni had actually brought Ray Park back and gave us this scene you're talking about. I like your theory.

[@YomamaYodaddyYobjtchassGranny]

I got so excited for the possibility of seeing maul but i was like ahh too bad

[@berkajr3685]

Great video. I hope you also saw how Anakin with the red light sabre fought Ashoka. He was holding it like Luke did when Luke faced Vader, with both hands. Vader seldom uses both hands to wield the light sabre. But there Anakin/Vader did when he fought Ashoka

[@Jondiceful]

Great observations! I would like to add a touch of nuance that I believe causes Ahsoka's regret surrounding her decision regarding Maul so acute. In that episode, I always felt as if Ahsoka sensed the truth of what Maul was saying, but she couldn't accept it. So she brushed it off as Maul trying to cloud her judgment as only a sith could. I compare it to when Vader tells Luke "I am your father" and Luke screams "No! That's imPOSSIBLE!" Vader tells Luke to search his feelings because he knows that Luke can sense the truth. Luke then accepts this fact and instead asks Obi-Wan "Why didn't you tell me?" I think if Ahsoka had searched her feelings, she would have accepted the truth as well. Also, no she and Maul would not have stopped Anakin from becoming Vader. If you will recall from that episode of Clone Wars, the events of Mandalore and Palpatine's final moves in swaying Anakin's loyalties were occurring simultaneously. Even if she and Maul had teamed up and made the fastest possible dash to Corriscant, they could only have arrived after Order 66 had been issued. Best case scenario, they could have stopped Anakin from massacring the younglings, though I find that unlikely given the size of the clone army he marched in with and Maul's own conflicted allegiances in such a fight. There's also great danger that Palpatine a would have sensed Maul's presence and joined the fight unquestionably resulting in the deaths of Maul and Ahsoka. And Ahsoka could not have persuaded Anakin to abandon the dark side. She couldn't have known, but if Obi-Wan and Padme had failed to persuade him, Ahsoka had no chance. Even combined the three would not have succeeded.

[@davidvondoom2853]

I'm not so sure about that Ahsoka not standing a chance. I would argue that Anakin was closer to her than anyone else. Anakin didn't always trust Obi-Wan with things. Ahsoka knew about Anakin and Padme before Obi-Wan did and they've discussed things together that most Jedi would find taboo to talk about. Ahsoka was Anakin's closest confidant, since they were the most alike. Neither were typical Jedi, unlike Obi-wan. In fact, I often feel that when Ahsoka left the Jedi Order it was the tipping point for Anakin. It pushed him away from the Jedi and he lost his closest confidant. If he were to talk about Sidious with anyone, it would have been her. Anyone else would have judged him or scolded him, putting him on the defensive and causing him to entrench himself in his bad decision. Ahsoka would have worried for him, but be understanding and it would have helped him to see reason. I feel this is why we never get to see any prolonged interaction between Ahsoka and Vader/Anakin, because it would make too much sense for her to be the one to get through to him, but that would break the cannon of it being Luke. In addition, Anakin was always trying to set a good example for his padawan. Something that made Anakin's character in Clone Wars far superior to the bratty Anakin of the films. Absent of that responsibility, he seemed to regress in character, becoming more selfish.

[@matthewdufty606]

I really enjoyed this video. Thank you for uploading! Episode 5 was so cool. Seeing Anikin again made me very happy. I hope we get to see live action Mull again. That would be really cool.

[@RenVolkert]

if ahsoka did back up maul, it would have made things worse... imagine your padawan showing up with a former sith lord.. anakin might end up thinking ahsoka is there to kill him rather than saving him

[@frankyjrod5868]

Good point, but I’m pretty sure they would’ve overpowered him. The dynamics are very tricky because if you throw Obi-Wan in this conversation, Mauls focus is diverted from Sidious’s new dark apprentice

[@RenVolkert]

@@frankyjrod5868 oh yeah i didnt thought about that.. maybe another fight will come when they meet 🤔

[@seanzibonanzi64]

Beyond stopping Sidious and Vader, just Ashoka telling the other Jedi what Maul told her would've probably been enough to stop most Order 66 deaths.

[@MrBlack252]

I guarantee you the next 3 episodes will not top episode 5

[@Bilal_Skywalker]

Nah nothin can top ep5

[@paradoxworkshop4659]

Challenge accepted. If they learned anything from Andor (and there is no evidence Disney will learn, but there is hope for Dave), continuous ramping works.

[@JustaNilbody]

OP probably has seen the pre-screening.

[@mrwilkerson835]

I agree!

[@Chops_on_tour]

Unless we get rex in a suprise twist

[@steelgoodwin]

Rex was always a grandpa to Ashoka. He enjoyed being by her side and watching her become a great commander. Though I think he felt guilty when she was lost to the jedi/military trial. As for this episode, when Anakin said he wasn't there, I would've been happy to see Maul appear and hear Sam's voice explain it to Anakin. That would've been next level.

[@roygalazka6523]

We really need an animated Filoni cut of Revenge of the Sith that not only is an animated version of the movie, but incudes the scenes from the Clone Wars finale.

[@Phasma6969]

🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@cyberwasp3289]

I think that in only a few years with the help of AI, it will be possible to convert the Clone Wars Cartoons into actual movie footage.

[@akmason74]

Good insight, but I don't think it is "the lesson" that Anakin is trying to teach her. We won't know until the end of course, but also recall that when she starts musing about that, Anakin firmly shuts her down, and states that "it's time to start the lesson over". If I had to say, he's preparing her for whatever has happened to Ezra under Thrawn's influence. Anyway, it was a great set of scenes.

[@mrbeans2425]

oooo interesting take. In my opinion he was trying to show her that NO MATTER WHAT he was always destined to become Vader, and there was nothing she could do to stop him, So all the guilt and shame she was carrying around she had to let go, It was all about acceptance. and POSSIBLY preparing her for what Ezra has become. Like even haad she stayed, he would have still become Vader. She has a lot of guilt and remorse thinking she is part of the reason he turned, Haad she never left could she have saved him? Short answer is NO

[@akmason74]

@@mrbeans2425 I expect that there are layers of meaning here, as there should be. I think that the scenes are intentionally overtoned with Ahsoka's feelings about what happened to Anakin. My sense, which may turn out to be wrong, is that it's acknowledged that Anakin made the wrong choice, and his fall, whether inevitable or not, is history now. It's Ahsoka who still has the chance to make the right choice.

[@peterbuckmaster581]

Woh! If that happens, that will be as jaw-dropping as gut-wrenching.

[@Flynn01979]

I hope we get live action Captain Rex before the end of season. It would be interesting to see how Temuera Morrison plays the character.

[@p1nkfl0yd1an]

Considering Ahsoka is in her 40s? at this point I'd be surprised of Rex is still kicking.

[@AzraelThanatos]

@@p1nkfl0yd1an Do we know if he survived Endor?

[@p1nkfl0yd1an]

@@AzraelThanatos I don't think it's confirmed either way.

[@AzraelThanatos]

@@p1nkfl0yd1an I just can't remember seeing the character that they shifted to be Rex after the battle...or even in the later parts of the battle on the ground.

[@MH-vl5sn]

Imo that battle in the world between worlds was just a metaphor for her own battle to survive. After all, she was drowning and i think this is how her subconcious tried to make her choose. She was already unconfident in her lifechoices, she felt that she abandoned Anakin and the Jedi Order. She had regrets and desired guidance, so she imagined that whole scenario with Anakin, the memories of her fights on the battlefield... and in the end her fear of becoming what Anakin became. I think by not killing Anakin, she refused to choose death and decided to live. What young Jason heard was not the actual battle in the world between worlds but Ahsokas thoughts and emotions. However, that is just how i like to see it, rather than having Anakin ascend to godhood...

[@BlatentlyFakeName]

Anakin was saying that he was already on the dark path when the war started, he just didn't realise it.

[@DjGrimmace]

The line "You lack conviction". Made me shiver, cause it such a Vader thing to say.

[@user-mx5ub9zf1k]

re: generally, you can say what you want about Lucas. Certainly, Filoni defers to him continually and acknowledges his primacy - to which I say, fine. Fine fine fine fine fine fine fine. WHATEVER. Filoni has, with all the developing of Ahsoka and the other characters, and how he has made these relationships circle back around to the original characters (like Anakin for example) is masterful and honestly, it has SAVED Start Wars as a viable franchise. Because of what he has done, IMO Star Wars is more viable, more interesting than it ever had been. re: faces Maul, this is absolutely, positively CORRECT. THAT WAS THE MOMENT OF CHANGE. Maul KNEW (of course he knew). Ahsoka was equally as confident that SHE knew - after all - had she not been with Anakin for such a long time and had every reason to think that she knew better than Maul, who had not had nearly the same intimate acquaintance with Anakin, often day on day, month on month, year on year, as she had? She must TRULY have felt that Maul was a FOOL, or at best had ulterior motives, which actually is definitely true also. Maul ultimately wanted POWER. He wants to RULE. We have already seen what happens when Maul is able to obtain followers. Typical dark side behavior. But after the experience with Maul, she realized that she didn't (and this must have been particularly grating upon her, given that was I just said about Maul is completely true, and she would have known this also) - that she had been fooled all along. Typically, when Maul, almost matter-of-factly said what he said to her, all she could do was to get mad, combative, and say is "your vision is flawed", which is embarrassing, because of course, Maul was absolutely correct. This HAD to have called her up short, so to speak. Talk about your cognitive dissonance.

[@mburland]

"He knows what he's doing" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kenyonr]

Awesome explanation

[@jorgegavino7458]

They probably had a scene with Maul and Ahsoka but it got removed. We had those set photo leaks with the Maul robot legs. Unless it comes out later.

[@jameshaynie9478]

The thing is everyone had a part to play in the upcoming birth of Vader. Ahsoka shouldn’t beat herself up too much. Besides Darth Sidious preyed on Anakin’s desperation to save Padme. Palpatine worked on Anakin long enough to convince him that I can help you protect the one’s you love.

[@jordansmobiledetailing5097]

Letting go of the past is one of the hardest things any of us will have to do.

[@mitchwood5678]

If we could get a single scene brought to the live action, it'd be Maul's Corridor scene... god dammit that was incredible.

[@SDCCooper]

Anakin always had light in him. Even as Vader he freed Kenobi from feeling guilt, and now post Vader he's freeing Ahsoka. He's done horrific things but he still worked to help his Master and his Padawan. This feels like a finally "complete" Anakin. At one with all versions of himself. And Hayden crushed it. So pleased for him. Final point, this episode really hammered it home that Ahsoka was a child through the Clone Wars. I'll be watching that show differently now.

[@tHeWasTeDYouTh]

Imagine if Darth Maul just told Ahsoka that Chancellor Palptaine was a Sith Lord. Hell, he should have sent a recording to all people in the holonet and just ratted him out.

[@AjsIsland]

Best explanation of this episode yet. I think you are spot with your interpretation on with what Dave was trying to showcase to us.

[@joschmo6020]

Several times when (Padawan) Ashoka speaks, the actress NAILS those little hallmark inflections and tempo changes. Well done by all. A live action Clone Wars. Episode for episode! Who WOULDN’T watch that! THIS is the stuff WE ARE HUNGRY FOR.

[@Dabirdz2099]

We? No you missed it. 😂

[@annawhite1591]

the cool thing, we saw a battle never made for the clones wars, gen. skywalkers mission on ryloth, we only saw him attackin the bombers, most guess didn't realize it was ryloth,

[@Cyberpunk-zb8nk]

Epic episode

[@spi1616]

Some things are inevitable! Period! Can’t change it. It was written 40 plus years ago.

[@brothermel9702]

Well, the way I look at it is for those that actually watched Rebels, there's some foreshadowing dropped in the World Between Worlds ep...remember the line where she tells Erza you can't save your master no more than I could save mind...she said it, but I don't think she really believed it to her core, but still it foreshadowed to a certain extent that Anakin was gonna go dark regardless of whatever she did.

[@curtisdonnelly9523]

I don't know if they are strong enough to defeat cities

[@richards2822]

Episode 5 and Anakin's lesson to Ahsoka is so amazing in so many ways. I had interpreted it as she needed to stop holding back and fight again and that in the end, she wouldn't turn to the dark side like Anakin, such as when her eyes turned red for a few seconds but she gathered herself and they returned to normal. But this idea about her reflection to her decision not to join Maul, I wonder if we see Anakin turn to Vader at the same moment Rex disappears bc Ahsoka is playing it out in her mind what would have happened if she did say yes. Anakin still would have become Vader like you said and she ends up having to fight him. So it plays out and she "wins" in this dual but is tempted to the dark side like you said, which is why her eyes turn red. So at the moment she pauses, she's realizing this was the wrong decision after all and she did make the right one. So her eyes turning normal is that realization and that she can stop blaming herself.

[@pezzetinosharkmeister9505]

brilliant as always, still the shatter point berween Asokha and Maul is later, right after the battle of Mandalore.

[@matthewbailey7243]

She's also probably carrying some guilt for setting Maul free on the ship and subsequently killing all aboard.

[@annawhite1591]

and that one scene, do not think ahsoka eyes turn colors, think its the glow of the saber relecting, light does that, just like did with vader in obi wan

[@johnwick8756]

I'm 38 and have been married for over 12 years. I've learned what it comes down to is blunt honesty with the person you are with. I'm a retired combat engineer and am the more rough around the neck type person. My wife is a teacher and has a male coworker that she is great friends with and they text often. I don't have an issue with it because she is honest about it and I know that if I ever want to know what they are talking about I can ask her or I can look myself. She knows just like I do what we consider crossing the line and know what the consequences are depending on what it is.

[@inscrutianaII]

At the end of the episode, he tells us that she has learned the lesson because she allows the will of the force to guide her wherever the purrgil are going ["You're certain they know where Sabine was taken?" / "I have no idea"] versus always attempting to make things happen through force of will, as mentored by Anakin "You lack conviction" Skywalker. Again and again in Clone Wars, we are shown that more senior jedi have concerns for how this padawan is being guided. I guess this episode is an "in case you missed it" piece.

[@4Bashment]

Wow very enlightening info 😮 . I used to wonder If Maul was her Father and she never knew , but that seems unlikely.

[@cassiuscoleman4624]

Because we are dealing with an already established and closed ended storyline very poignant storylines and stories of internal reflection and struggle will always end up saying "it was going to happen no matter what". Since the original trilogy Anakin's fate was sealed. To go back in, in any capacity, for any reason and change it because originally it is sad or tragic does an injustice to the overall and original story. However, character studies in any of these characters, but Ahsoka in particular is great character exploration and is great fun as a fan to watch unfold. Throughout our lives we all deal with 'would'a, could'a, should'a' moments. We all have regrets and question the outcome if we had made different choices. This is just simply good writing.

[@juanmacias4854]

The aspect of Anakin going white and red reminds me of the offer made to him to replace the father and bring balance to the force. He didn't do it while alive, but in the after life, can it be that he is taking on the mantle of the Father - although there is the need of the son and the daughter - or maybe he is all that is required. Thus his changing from Anakin to Darth as his frustration grows with Ahsoka. Just a thought.

[@JeffDeanTheDeanZone]

The role of the Father was to maintain balance between the Son and the Daughter. Now that both are dead (we presume the Son is dead even though he wasn't killed with the Mortis dagger), there is no need for the balancing influence of the Father. Anakin doesn't take on the mantle of the Father. Instead, he's the "Chosen One" who is to bring balance to the force (something the Father never could do, for if he could there would be no need for a Chosen One).

[@boomshroom5118]

The son is Luke and the Daughter is Leia.

[@EinherjarLucian]

Worse, when given the opportunity to tell Yoda what she learned from Maul, she chose not to.

[@SnappySnapfire]

We didn't miss it at all. Rex is in the episode twice. New Rockstars has a great breakdown of every episode and breakdowns of Rebels

[@Jimz369]

Isn’t Anakin said to be an episode 5 ,6 and the 8th? That’s what I’ve heard. Rumor.

[@5idi]

The fact that someone needs to "decode" it means the episode was bad. People need to understand what's going on when they watch.

[@AiiZStudio]

“Anakin wasn’t the main character of clone wars. Oh and this just in: Moe Szyslak is not the main character in the Simpsons either! Who’d have known it?”

[@urbnctrl]

Mortis Arc confirmed. Who will be the son? What if Ezra turned dark? He was after all Kanan AND Mauls apprentice in a sense. Always balancing between the light and dark.

[@yoteslaya7296]

Anakin: use the force ahsoka. Let it calm your gag reflex

[@ARandomInternetUser08]

Seeing Rex cry just broke me. That whole sequence just broke me. 😭😭

[@hamtidamti491]

I MUST say ur boy dave is the only one left with true love for star wars when we lost the men him self it was like losing one of your arms but dave i doing a amazing job i mean are we realy shocked that episode that he made hade the most lore best fights and just best ep by far in ahsoka. I truly love that men and how deep he thinks and knows star wars hope he well stay with us a long time and that disney well give him full power over film and shows. And of the to you to comics for making good lore vids i my self do get alot of it but sometimes you just hit the spot. God i love true star wars.

[@emceekaoz1886]

Ahhh I can’t get over her face!!!😭 idk what it is but it fucken gets me! It’s either too round or I see too much gamora in her that I can’t see Ashoka

[@emceekaoz1886]

Season 1-6 anakin, clones, Obi Season 7 main characters are Ashoka and Rex

[@GokusonSS5]

Geniusly made

[@OldCityBob]

WOW!! Some very intuitive breakdown! GREAT job!!

[@RyanBright-wg1yk]

Been exploring Mongols a lot recently & my comparison would be Ahsoka & Rex are to Anakin what Chebe & Subudei are to Genghis Khan. OG Trilogy is following the son & Prequels follow Anakin both through R2's perspective, Clone Wars is Ahsoka & Rex' perspective.

[@planetrift]

You missed the most important scene.. the one where Hera hears the fight between Vader and Ashoka. She couldn't have unless she too is force sensitive, and probably doesn't know/understand that she is.

[@carlosguillen6668]

Earlier Ahsoka was telling Sabine, that the force is in every living thing, as did obi wan to Luke. It takes skill to use it though.

[@mardroidmk1393]

I am not sure Hera actually heard the battle herself (her son Jacen certainly did. He is definitely force sensitive). That scene isn't clear. She might have when he told her to listen. Her facial expression doesn't indicate either way. I would have thought her eyes would have widened more if she had, or she would have exclaimed something, but she may just be good at hiding her feelings. Or she may have heard nothing but she trusts her son. She has had previous experience with force sensitives after all.

[@goodputin4324]

Nope. You're just milking the content of someone's idea... This show is about ahsoka and ani/vader. End of.

[@Tharus12]

Everything is predicated towards the outcome needed for Anakin going to the Dark Side. It's never going to change because that's the story and everything needed to be taken that way in clone wars and removing these characters away from the original Star Wars characters to let that happen. There are points through the clone wars where a what if series could originate from and these and you could come up with multiple different outcomes for each of these points.

[@ElMaestroGordo]

That's a sliding door moment & yes, I think one of the MOST pivotal moments of Ahsoka's life. Could she have teamed up with Darth Maul & prevented Order 66? Equally, it is just as likely that Maul would have turned on Ahsoka when she wasn't expecting it or she may have turned to the Dark Side-by association with Maul. Whatever her reasons, I assume Ahsoka was wise enough not to completely trust in Maul.

[@Leo-si9zm]

Am i the only one who thinks Anakins eyes should have turned yellow instead of red?

[@demarcusdavis1681]

There’s two main problems with Ahsoka: 1. This series was really made for fanboys of the animated series as evidenced by there not being any character development. Mostly everything is assumed, so viewers like me (who are Star Wars fans but have never seen ANY of the animated series) aren’t impressed with most of the action and at times look at most of each episode as being pedestrian at best. 2. Having so many animated series and somehow condensing them into 8-24 episodes, a lot of action and/or context will have to be left out. Meaning, much of the plots or sub-plots will have to be inferred. Also, I hope the writing improves. Dialogue has been very basic Nd slowly metered.

[@jeffreycarman2185]

Great observations! This show is really awesome! I would saw it definitely rivals the first two seasons of The Mandalorian for some of the best Disney live-action content.

[@bigsmok1e625]

Explained that brilliantly 👏🏿😭 Dave's the 🐐💯

[@WickedPrince3D]

It is absolutely wrong thinking on Ahsoka's side. Annakin murdered Amidala to save Amidala, if that couldn't change him nothing else would. I think it's in the nature of most jedi to always wonder if they could have done more, save more. This I think is the true Jedi; those who don't care who or how many they save aren't; those who throw themselves head-first into the Darkside aren't. It's the Jedi who always push themselves harder to do more, save more, who are the true Jedi.

[@Saimeren]

5:00 "That's what she believes... In her head.." In her head? As opposed to...? In her fingers? Outside of her head? The head is where the thinking is done. It's where the believing is done. I don't know why you felt the need to emphasize "In her head".

[@marktorch9079]

at 1:40 We have sound but the screen is black and it lasts for 7 seconds. Not sure if it was intentional or not. We do continue to have sound so we can still hear your angerlic voice

[@Invictus-XVI]

Anakin was definitely NOT a "vision" in this episode 😅 Though he was likely a bit "different", as in he fully took on the role of the father or something similar.😶

[@macIain]

Man if they remade the Maul and Ahsoka scene live action! Wouldn't that be something!

[@robertmueller2023]

Everybody gather around the monitor ... this is what "Watch List", "No Fly List", and "Enhanced Interrogation" meant.

[@Ryzza5]

While most jedi seemed reluctant to take part in the CW, Anakin seems eager to advance his ranks in the millitary since the jedi council often restricted his progress within their structure.

[@jermainegreen7607]

Fun fact, the actress that played young Ashoka also played young Gamora in infinity war

[@WhisperingPeace]

Absolutely awesome video. Exceptional analysis and editing. I learned so much. Many thanks! ❤️

[@Cipher73]

That last episode of Ahsoka was awesome. I wish I saw all the clone wars and rebels episode, so thanks for making this vid. I hope they bring back more of Anakin. This is the Anakin we want now.

[@RonnieGorotto]

Look man, whatever Ahsoka would have decided, both her and Maul were powerless to stop Anakin. Anakin would have killed both of them.

[@georgecaplan11]

0:13 here is literally one of the soldiers from Maul’s Mandalorian death watch collective. So she does encounter Maul’s influence in her flashback. Maul survived Clone Wars and was killed by Obi Wan in Rebels so I have no idea what you are going on about. I seem to recall Ahsoka encounters Maul and Vader in Rebels.

[@alwaysbelieve8396]

Disney not just giving all story and concept to Dave and George was their biggest failure. Let's how the Filoniverse stays far, far away from the Disney timeline.

[@slimrummy4616]

I was bent that they didn't show maul

[@JustaNilbody]

Same. Like we always get so little screen time of him.

[@mankind5709]

Imagine what Dave filoni could do with a bigger budget to work with , the possibilities are endless.

[@prezhenz6969]

I never connected the duel with Maul to this scene! But it is true that things may have gone differently but not better

[@rafaellorenzo3207]

They forgot the season 5 clone wars episode 17 -20 the sabotage and her leaving the jedi

[@2pacisaliveee]

My navy recruiter: all the bitches are here, unlike the ones in the army that are ran through. Little did I know all the ones in the marines were ran through also

[@stevenm732]

Even if she had decided otherwise there’s no way they’d get to Coruscant and stop Vader in time before he sacked the temple. Not only would they have had to bring Mauls entire fleet, battle past the defenses of Coruscant, then confront and defeat Vader and the 501st troopers together. They would have been too late even if they arrived in force.

[@TrueBlueAndrew]

Dave Filoni is a Gift to Star Wars.

[@xXScissorHandsXx]

Explains a bit more behind the "why are we here?" "I don't know, you tell me..." lines 👍👍

[@seanjoseph1700]

Ahsoka doesn't regret not teaming up with maul, are you serious?

[@mindripproductions5785]

In the very first episode Ashoka even said what if the right choices have the wrong consequences, what do you do then

[@bitcoinski]

I got teary eyed with this episode...well done Mr. Filoni...you have redeemed yourself...EPIC.

[@JDotLoc]

Redeemed?

[@heimirjosefsson510]

Poor Ahsoka. Everyone calling her old.

[@shauncallander1203]

Why can't Filoni write and direct every single thing star wars going forward?

[@jameshaynie9478]

Anakin chose the path that was best for him and that was the dark side. It wasn’t till decades later in his life as Darth Vader where he has regrets of becoming a dark lord of the sith. My point in mentioning this is to say we try to pick apart reasons why someone chose the path they did. We feel that it’s our fault but really they chose what was best for them. I feel this explains Anakin’s transition to the Dark side.

[@michaelcochrane5475]

I’m lost ! How can Maul be there when Obi Wan killed him years ago 🤔🤣